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[D.B.]

Don't go to the market, go to the British Boot Company shop.

EDIT: On a similar note, can someone buy me a pair of these please?

I'm going to put forward a dissenting opinion - scour your local area for military surplus shops and see what they have available. They'll be comparatively cheap and most likely extremely hard wearing. I'm currently on my second pair of german paratrooper boots bought in this manner. The first pair lasted for years and years and years while being the most comfortable footwear I've ever owned, and these ones seem to be no different.

[philsov]

I actually didn't know about the new album, but I'll go take a look at it now.

I'll save you some trouble: Stick to Aim and Ignite, and if you want to check out more music look into The Format.

Less than awesome: This new album. There's goddamn autotuning. You'll want to check out the samples on itunes or amazon before making a decision about this celebration of mediocrity (suggest itunes, 1:30 samples there) -- there's a few gems but it's mostly filler and there are at least three tracks that would improve the album by simply being removed.

[Giant Speck]

My furniture arrives sometime in the next three hours!

[Giant Speck]

My furniture arrives sometime in the next three hours!

It's here! It's here! And the living room tables I thought I wasn't going to get until March are here, too!

[Giant Speck]

My furniture arrives sometime in the next three hours!

It's here! It's here! And the living room tables I thought I wasn't going to get until March are here, too!

LOL I'M TRIPLE POSTING

[e^iπ+1=0]

Nice!

[PhoenixEnigma]

You are a gentleman of taste and refinement. Well done, sir!

[Giant Speck]

You are a gentleman of taste and refinement. Well done, sir!

Meh, just a bargain hunter. The living room furniture (minus the lamps and pillows, which I bought today) was $579. The bedroom was $433 plus a $197 mattress.

I would like to get some nice things for the walls and a rug. I'm thinking of actually try my hand at painting something to hang on the wall.

[Magnanimous]

Party at Giant Speck's! Who's with me?

[pseudoidiot]

What happens in Giant Speck's apartment stays in Giant Speck's apartment.

[Noc]

What happens in Giant Speck's apartment damn well better not get on the couches.

[pseudoidiot]

We'll put down a tarp.

[The Scyphozoa]

Now that he's done with that he can get to work on his avatar, yeah?

[Magnanimous]

Bouncy bouncy bouncy.

[Dason]

Bouncy bouncy bouncy.

[Giant Speck]

Bouncy bouncy bouncy.

<3333333333

[OBrien]

Horray! The bounce is back!

[userxp]

Processing power has multiplied by a hundred trillion in the last century. I don't think people realize the awesomeness of that. If everything (except population) had followed this trend, we would have 20 trillion cars and 15 thousand planets per person.

[Xeio]

Wait a second... I'm pretty sure if follow the trend line for planets* we would have had zero instead...

*In the Sol system anyway.

[userxp]

No, that's the current trend for planets, I was applying the trend of computers to planets.

And even then we're not actually destroying Earth. In fact we went to the moon and have rovers on Mars, so if we consider that we now "own", say, 100m² of combined surface outside Earth (yes I know the Moon is not a planet, shut up), we can see that in the last 43 years we have gained about 2×10^-13 planets, or 4.5 quadrillionths of planet per year. Making progress!

[The Scyphozoa]

I think Xeio was talking about Pluto.

[JudeMorrigan]

My nephew, who has gotten into running road races, has decided that he plans on running a race this Halloween dressed as Gandalf with a sign on his back that reads "You shall not pass".

It's so nice to see that she's raising the boy right.

[userxp]

I think Xeio was talking about Pluto.

Ooooh.
Well, Pluto should have never been a planet.
And if you go further back (say, 4.568 billion years) you'll find that the number of planets in the solar system has increased dramatically.


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[PhoenixEnigma]

Awesome: My computer lives!

Background: the motherboard caught on fire (!) yesterday. Having replaced that, everything else seems fine. I mean, I need to reinstall windows and things, but everything survived being connected to a flaming motherboard.

[Gear]

the motherboard caught on fire

I admit to being relatively unknowlegable about the hardware of computers, but how did that happen?

[phlip]

Experimental cardboard-and-gasoline heatsink technology.

[Cathy]

Experimental cardboard-and-gasoline heatsink technology.

Still laughing a few minutes later. <3

[PhoenixEnigma]

Thanks phlip, that nearly had coffee all over my desk

As to the cause, there's a blown capacitor on one side and a severely overloaded power trace on the other. No idea which was cause and which was effect, though.

[darknut]

the cardboard and gasoline probly didnt help the situation though

[pseudoidiot]

Psh, if gasoline and cardboard can't fix a problem, then it's not worth fixing.

[roband]

My girlfriend's dad just sponsored us £500 for the 10 mile walk for charity we're doing at midnight tonight. Wowee.

[Kronos912]

Psh, if gasoline and cardboard can't fix a problem, then it's not worth fixing.

Seems like a lazy life for everyone out there without cardboard or gasoline. I like that!

[Whelan]

My flatmate and I just bought a nerf gun each.
In the first hour, we've lost three or four darts already. Which is impressive, given we live in student digs.

[OBrien]

Only three or four? Can't be a proper student accommodation if it's that tidy.

[Whelan]

Well of the six of us that live in the flat, only three ever have our doors open, and one was out.

[OBrien]

Still, your living room should be so full of shit you have to look around for five minutes to find a seat. That's how we did it in Brum, and I'm a better person for it!

[e^iπ+1=0]

"Unless you trash your room, are drunk nigh constantly, do your work only at the very last minute, never turn up to lectures (or alternatively do turn up, but drunk), etc. etc., and generally just barely get a degree, you're not a student!"

I'm not picking on you personally, OBrien, but this is a thing that I've gotten a lot since getting to uni and more often than not I'm annoyed by it.

[OBrien]

That's fine, I count my 3^rd as "just barely [getting] a degree". I'm just bitter that nowdays I'm either: A) working a shit job five days a week for very little money and can't do that shit anymore or I'd get fired, or; B) not working and getting next to no money from the doll office and can't do that shit anymore or I'd have to go hungry.

[PhoenixEnigma]

My girlfriend's dad just sponsored us £500 for the 10 mile walk for charity we're doing at midnight tonight. Wowee.

Also, good luck, dood!

[B.Good]

97% on my proof based linear algebra exam. Fuck yes.